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Apr 19, 2024
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PSY 3210 - Sensation and Perception
Study of the psychophysical, biophysical, and psychological processes that underlie sensory and perceptual phenomena – with an emphasis on visual and auditory modalities, including perception of objects, space, events, and perceptual development.
Requisites: (PSY 101D or 1010) and (1110 or 2110 or QBA 2010)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to apply principles of sensation and perception to real-world phenomena.
- Students will be able to explain process hypotheses about the role that attention plays in shaping perception and about the way multi-sensory processes are organized and integrated by the human cognitive system.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast the five sensory systems in terms of their physiological and psycho-functional characteristics.
- Students will be able to distinguish differences between sensation and perception.
- Students will be able to identify the major concepts, theories, and research in sensation and perception. Also, articulate key psychophysical laws and the Gestalt principles of human perception.
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